Cons: more than 50 hour weeks, being called 24/7 for work that i wasn't being paid for.

A typical day at work involved dealing directly with customers every day and providing the customers with enough information to select a computer or tablet that would benefit what they are looking for. I learned how to be a better team leader, how to make people come together to complete a common goal. I was a common sales rep for 6 months when I started, and after that I was promoted to an assistant store manager. I was in charge of a team of 6-8 and we worked every day was a team to make sure our customers were happy and to make sure we were selling product everyday. I set goals that were both achievable and challenging. My co-workers were a mix of young and older men and women with and without experience in the technology world. The hardest part of the job was trying to inspire a co-worker that was not interested in the job they were given to do. My manager and I would work together to help the specific employee with their job to help them reach their goal to help inspire them to do their job correctly. The most enjoyable part of the job is when we were sharing success stories about good customer interactions and how we were able to enhance their lives in a new way.

My co-workers were very easy-going and fun to work with. They always made me feel like I belonged on the team. Even when I was the brand new kid in the store, they never treated me like less than a friend.

I worked for this company a period of 9 months as a store manager. I thought I'd found a great small company that valued it's team members and I could have a long rewarding career. Boy was I wrong. I should have known better because there were red flags starting from the get go when the VP forgot to show up for our interview 3 times.

Beyond that, pay was ridiculous. After consistently pulling 50 hour work weeks I made less than sales consultants. I averaged $8 an hour. The executive management team scrutinizes candidates for top talent then micromanages them. As a manager you'll spend most of your time cleaning up after the executives lack of planning and mis allocation of company funds. As a store manager I had absolutely no autonomy over my store. Every week you show up on a conference call and get asked "what do you need from us to become profitable" only to be invalidated and the subject swept under the carpet.

Management is desperate due to dismal sales company wide this leads to pushing, micromanaging and super low moral rolling down hill. In a month period several people quit due to inadequate wages that didn't meet the level of work required. Avoid this company at all costs unless you like to be treated like a kindergartner.

Once Simply Mac was bought out by game stop everything became even worse. 2/3 of the company managers received final coaching for under performance outside of their control. Unfortunately the company has a marketing department that fails to bring people into stores.

While the product Simply Mac sells is fantastic, the company isn't. The store manager does not understand how to create schedules a month or two in advance. Instead does them week to week. Gets extremely upset requesting time off or a day off citing "the schedules are not created for the employees but rather for the customers".

The work environment is no better. Both the district manager and store manager do not focus on building up the team but rather cut throat sales. Bonuses are based off commission and going off the sales quote for a customer usually results in a five minute lecture from the store manager, regardless how long you've spent assisting the customer or if they changed their mind from the original quote. Many times the store manager has refunded sales and issued them in his own name.

The other issue with Simply Mac in Cheyenne is that it is utterly dead 80% of the time. Without doing research the company decided to put the store in the dead side of the mall. This is great to get paid to do nothing for an eight hour shift but management does get on its employees for not selling. A little hard to do when there's an empty store.

I learned how to be a better salesman by earning the majority of my pay through commission incentives. I was inclined to work harder knowing that the harder I worked, the more I would make. My co-workers were some of the hardest working individuals I know and they always strived to be the best they could be. The most enjoyable part of the job was the continuous interaction with guests of all backgrounds and being able to connect on a personal level.

• Sales of computers, tablets, iPhone, services and accessories• Sales and pricing of trade in of computers• Inventory• IPhone repairs• training of trade in evaluations and credit issuing• opening and closing of the store• opening and closing of registers• make deposits to bank• training associates• iPhone repairs• weekly reports• Sales of computers, tablets, iPhone, services and accessories• Sales and pricing of trade in of computers• trade in evaluations and credit issuing• shipping and receiving